Leonardo A. Carrió Cataldi is a permanent research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, based at the LARHRA unit (Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes) in Lyon. He specialises in the early modern history of science, namely, in the framework of the Portuguese and the Spanish empires.
At MFO, thanks to the support of the British Academy alumni scheme, he is carrying out research and finalising a paper on the circulation of early modern calendars and the attempts to correlate European and non-European time conceptions.
Most recent publication:
Las gentes y las cosas. Construcciones fragmentarias de dos horizontes coloniales ibéricos: África y América (ca. 1492-1560)” in Rafael Gaune Corradi and Antonella Romano (eds), Fragmentos de Mundo: Objetos y artefactos americanos en tránsito (siglos XVI-XX), Lisbon, CHAM, p. 45-65.